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It’s been something like a year since I did a movie review on this blog, there’s no particular reason for this slack but here’s a movie that I thought deserve one – Prometheus (2012).

The movie is sort of a prequel to the Alien series that many of us grew up watching, and in a way, an integral part of our childhood’s formation years. Prometheus is directed by the same Ridley Scott that made those classics the original Alien and Blade Runner.

I watched this movie in TGV’s IMAX screen at Sunway Pyramid, and it utterly blew my mind away – the IMAX theater that is. It was crisp, clear, and sounded superb. Not entirely unlike switching from a 21″ old tube TV to the latest 55″ high definition LCD panel with a beefed up sound system to boot.

So much so that I want to watch every movie that’s release on TGV IMAX from now on, and I am not getting paid to write this.

TGV IMAX completely ruined my “normal” movie experience.

Anyway back to the movie that scored a (I think) very overrated 7.8/10 at IMDB.

The storyline:

A team of scientists travels through the universe on the spaceship “Prometheus” on a voyage to investigate Alien life forms. The team of scientists becomes stranded on an Alien world, and as they struggle to survive it becomes clear that the horrors they experience are not just a threat to themselves, but to all of mankind.

The movie has really excellent visuals with some scenes rival that of Avatar, pretty good pace, with rather decent acting (Michael Fassbender was excellent), and on top of that, you have Charlize Theron, that is always a bonus.

However, what I thought made it very disappointing are the things left unexplained and many that never make any sense. I know it’s essentially a sci-fi and you should be able to get away with many things, but consistency is key to any good story.

From here onwards it’s all spoilers, and read only if you have watched or are planning to watch.

Now here’s a list of problems I have with the movies:

How could biologists violate all the health code there is? Taking off the face mask = risking potential alien virus/bacterial infection

The same guy (Fifield) who deployed the navigational bots is the same guy who gets lost afterwards…

The same paranoid guy (Milburn) somehow wanted to play with alien snake

What are those black goo that kept flowing out of the vase?

What is David’s motive in “poisoning” Charlie?

A far superior civilization, the Engineers, didn’t even want to talk and just starts killing everyone in sight, that doesn’t seem very smart

Charlize Theron’s character was smart enough to lead a space expedition, but couldn’t figure out running side way will save her life

That almost Star Wars “father” line was utterly unnecessary

How did the face hugger grew to be the size of Kraken in the medical pot without food?

Why would the Engineer head to human’s escape pod when they have many other space ships of their own? If he wanted to kill all human on the planet first he’d have done it before the first attempt to fly off anyway.

- How could biologists violate all the health code there is? Taking off the face mask = risking potential alien virus/bacterial infection

They trusted Charlie who is technically their boss and who knew the most (a daredevil, true-believer sort) who believed the atmosphere was fit for human, I think it’s fair to say that they had enough gadgets to figure out that there wasn’t any risk of contracting diseases…from earth that is. Also, they went there thinking they’re invited & welcomed, which explains the lack of thought process allocated to “Will these aliens kill us?”

-The same guy (Fifield) who deployed the navigational bots is the same guy who gets lost afterwards…

He’s a geologist, he tests rocks. He doesn’t do maps lol.

-The same paranoid guy (Milburn) somehow wanted to play with alien snake.

They were rather cute and he’s probably an animal lover lol.

-What are those black goo that kept flowing out of the vase?

Biological weapon made from some kinda DNA that’s designed to interact with human DNA.

-What is David’s motive in “poisoning” Charlie?

Charlie was an asshole to David the entire time. And David has signs of having developed sentience from early in the film, cue: how he’s obsessed with Holloway’s dreams.

-A far superior civilization, the Engineers, didn’t even want to talk and just starts killing everyone in sight, that doesn’t seem very smart.

-I believe this scene confirms that Engineer was on a mission to kill humans. It was speculated at first but it’s confirmed by the scene. Also, I think it is on purpose that we don’t know exactly what humans have done to piss them off.

-Charlize Theron’s character was smart enough to lead a space expedition, but couldn’t figure out running side way will save her life.

Can be easily explained by panic. But ya, it’s dumb lol

-That almost Star Wars “father” line was utterly unnecessary.

No comment lol.

How did the face hugger grew to be the size of Kraken in the medical pot without food?

– Elephants are big from birth also what.

-Why would the Engineer head to human’s escape pod when they have many other space ships of their own? If he wanted to kill all human on the planet first he’d have done it before the first attempt to fly off anyway.

The human ship was kinda embedded into the alien ship. He probably stumbled into there.

Exploding head was to show what was gonna happen when black goo infects the host. They wanna know what happened to him before decapitation. Reanimating the head also reanimates the black goo to complete the process, similar to what happened to the ‘sacrifice’ engineer.

Black goo is like your computer program, designed to change your dna, speed up evolution either for good or bad. I guess the engineer got infected.

My real curiosity is how did the bio-weapon black goo escaped? They can’t be that careless. My only conclusion is, sabotage. The engineers are not all from same camp. Typical ‘God’ politics.

Let’s hope the sequel, address this internal politics of the engineers.

Btw, to better understand this movie, it is vital to know about Sumerian mythology, the original one that was ‘pirated’ by other religions today. This whole movie is rooted in that era and along with Ancient Alien stuff like those from Erich Von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods.

Sitchin’s work is also a huge influence to Ridley Scott. So before anyone diss this movie or insult Ridley Scott, you gotta understand you need to do your own homework first.

You are correct, but recently US tv channels have been showing all this Ancient Aliens series and getting hollywood stars to host these types of subjects to make it easier for the public to accept the ‘propaganda’ of Prometheus.

Except not many have seen those ‘history’ channel Aliens are Gods type of documentaries yet. You also have to understand it would be difficult preaching the theory to Atheists and even those with organized religion background.

This movie caters to a very selected/unique crowd (including me) that appreciates it and it is either a love it or hate it thing.

Hence, I tend to ignore the character flaws of the script and focus on the big picture, so I found the movie enjoyable. (Since I am already familiar with Sumerian Enlil, Enki, planet Eridu, Tiamat, Epic of Gilgamesh thingy.

9) How did the face hugger grew to be the size of Kraken in the medical pot without food?

That’s hardly a face HUGGER anymore actually. more like face SUCKER.

10) Why would the Engineer head to human’s escape pod when they have many other space ships of their own? If he wanted to kill all human on the planet first he’d have done it before the first attempt to fly off anyway.

1. why in the opening scene did the engineer drink the black muck
2. why did they have to kill of CT’s character -eventhough she was stupid and didn’t know how to run sideways
3. why did they have to show that stupid sex scene where the black guy challenges CT if she’s a bot and she takes the bait like a stupid hussy

The choice of shots were amazing at the start, and for the most part throughout. The start really has a bang feeling to it, with how it’s shot (I really could talk about the start of this movie forever but its a two hour long movie so I’ll move along). Throughout the film we are taken to many different places and shown many different things, the way it’s introduced in this film seemed very natural, and when you think of where we are with technology, it seems very practical that you could believe some of these things would exist (the technology anyway) . This was probably the best horror movie we will get this year. It’s not overly gory, but just terrifying in the sense that it has crazy looking aliens that do some crazy stuff.